Compound for cleaning painted and varnished surfaces



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT FORD, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

COMPOUND FOR CLEANING PAINTED AND VARNISHED SURFACES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 267,176, dated November '7, 1882.

Application filed August 10, 1882. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT FORD, of Atlanta, county of Fulton, and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Compound for Cleaning Painted and Varnished Surfaces; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.

This invention or discovery relates, first, to the cleaning of hard-finished painted and varnished surfaces, and, second, to the restoration of their original colors and their preservation.

The wash or compound for cleaning purposes is made of the following ingredients: pulverized pun'iice-stone, one part; finely-pulverized wood-ashes, one part; muriatic acid of commercial purity, one part; good vinegar, one part. The pumice-stone and ashes are mixed thoroughly together by themselves, and also the muriatic acid and vinegar by themselves, the two mixtures then being thoroughly incorporated together by shaking or stirring.

1f the presence of "ermin is suspected in the article to be cleaned, the following should be added to the wash and thoroughly incorporated therewith: sulphuric acid, one part; verdigris, one-half part; water, nine parts.

This wash may be rubbed upon the surface to be cleaned with a stifi. brush or rag, and then be washed off with a sponge saturated with water, this operation being repeated, if

necessary, until the surface is thoroughly cleaned.

If the article to be cleaned is very greasy and gummy, the cleansing process can begreat- 1y facilitated by first dipping the brush in the wash compound, and then into'd-ry pulverized pumice-stone.

The finishing compound for restoring and preserving the original color is made of the fol lowing ingredients: Muriatic acid, one part;

kerosene-oil, nine parts; lard-oil, nine parts; linseed-oil,nine parts; these ingredients may be rubbed together in a stonejar. Gum-copal, one part; turpentine, nine parts; these ingredients may be incorporated together by plac- The chemical products prod need by the union and combination of the foregoing ingredients, in the manner and proportions given, are adapted to accomplish the purposes stated in an economical and effective manner. It is adapted for use'on passenger-cars, carriages, furniture, &c., and other articles having painted and varnished surfaces.

Having thus described my discovery, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The wash compound consisting of the following ingredients: pulverized pumice-stone, pulverized woodashes, muriatic acid, and vinegar, in about the proportions described.

2. The finishing compound consistingof the followingingredients: niuriatic acid, keroseneoil, linseed-oil, gum-copal, and turpentine, mixed in about the proportions described.

This specification signed and witnessed.

ALBERT FORD.

Witnesses:

R. P. BUSH, E. W. BEALL. 

